S O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A weekly Greek-AmericAN PublicATiON www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 16, ISSUE 821 July 6-12, 2013 $1.50 As Troka is Persistent, Ford and Kissinger Pressed AHEPA on Cyprus Greece Asks for More Administration Tried To Coax Support to Time to Fire Workers End Turkey Embargo By Andy Dabilis in charge of finally putting to - Nearly 40 years after the ille - TNH Staff Writer gether a plan to shed 15,000 pub - gal Turkish invasion of Cyprus, it lic workers by the end of the year. has come to light that then-Pres - ATHENS – Amid reports that That came as Troika officials ident Gerald Ford and Secretary Greece’s international lenders were said not to have accepted of State Henry Kissinger at - were set to withhold further loan that Prime Minister Antonis tempted to persuade Greek- payments unless the pace of re - Samaras’ closing of the national American leaders, including offi - forms was accelerated, the gov - broadcaster ERT and the firing of cials of the Order of AHEPA, to ernment said it would need more all its 2,656 workers would count support the repeal the Turkish time to plan the firings of 15,000 toward the total as the govern - Arms Embargo which had gone workers despite two years of de - ment readied to temporarily re - in to effect on February 5, 1975. lays. hire 2,000 of them while readying Here is the declassified tran - Greek officials said they were a new station, NERIT, with a full- script of the meeting at the White confident they could satisfy en - time staff of 1000-1200. He has House on April 25, 1975 where voys from the Troika of the Euro - ignored a court order to restore officials and leading members of pean Union-International Mone - ERT’s signal in the meantime. the Order of AHEPA vigorously tary Fund-European Central Bank The Troika has been pushing resisted Ford and Kissinger, offer - (EU-IMF-ECB) that enough successive governments to get rid ing counter-arguments and alter - progress has been made so that of redundant public workers at native interpretations at every the next installment, this one for the same time that austerity mea - turn. 8.1 billion euros ($10.47 billion) sures have created a record 27.4 The meeting took place less would be disbursed. percent unemployment rate in than a year after the July 20, International lenders may the private sector. Until the ERT 1974 invasion, which prompted freeze emergency aid to Greece move, not a single public em - the members and organizations for three months unless Athens ployee had been let go. of the Greek- and Cypriot-Ameri - can convince them that the coun - Samaras’ New Democracy can communities to take action, try is on track to meet its reform Conservatives and the otherwise organizing grass roots protests, goals, a senior Eurozone official rival PASOK Socialists had been and arranging for meetings with said, according to Reuters. blamed for creating the country’s top officials of the U.S. govern - But the man on the hot seat crushing economic crisis by pack - AP PHOTO ment. They were instrumental in now is new Administrative Re - ing public payrolls with hundreds Tourists walk on the ancient Acropolis Hill beneath a Greek flag, in Athens, on Wednesday, July persuading Congress to impose form Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, of thousands of needless workers 3. Tourism is a major revenue earner in recession-stifled Greece, accounting for an estimated 16 for decades in return for votes. percent of annual economic output. Continued on page 8 Ironically, they are now shar - ing power in a fragile hybrid gov - ernment after Samaras brought in PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos and made him Deputy 3 Year-Old Left Behind on Field Trip Community in Prime Minister and Foreign Min - ister after the Socialist withdrew his objection to the closing of ERT By Theodore Kalmoukos she had gone on a field trip with which decided the dismissal of Shock: Peter and the firing of its workers. The TNH Staff Writer other children, but she only Makrinou and another teacher, tiny Democratic Left (DIMAR) left knew her teacher’s first name, Vicki Douka. Latos Passes the previous coalition over the is - NEW YORK – A three year-old “Miss Vicki,” and did not know School Principal Sonia Ce - sue. girl attending the summer camp the name of her school. lestin confirmed to TNH that the Mitsotakis met with Troika of - of the School of the Holy Trinity They gave her ice cream and teachers were dismissed, but By Dimitrios Tsakas ficials and said he tried to con - Archdiocesan Cathedral of New bubbles to play with while the that she had no plans of resign - TNH Staff Writer vince them he needs more time York was left behind on June 29 police tried to locate her school. ing herself. Poll told TNH “this to put together a so-called labor at Saint Catherine’s Park on Finally, the School was con - is a terrible breach of security, NEW YORK – Peter (Panagiotis) mobility scheme in which public 68th Street and First Avenue in tacted, the police escorted it’s intolerable, inexcusable.” Latos, well-known Greek-Amer - workers identified as being re - Manhattan, while on a field trip. teacher Voula Makrinou to the Poll had not been aware that the ican attorney and co-owner of dundant would be laid off with The NYPD said that the girl park to retrieve the girl. School had a summer camp pro - New Greek TV, passed away on further reduced pay for a year was reunited with her class - The next day a special meet - gram. He said “honestly I didn’t June 29. He fought heroically International Monetary Fund and then fired unless another po - mates three hours later. She was ing of the Executive Committee even know that there was a against prostate cancer for a (IMF) mission chief Poul spotted by a nanny, who called of the Parish Council was con - number of years but finally lost Thomsen. Continued on page 9 911. The girl told the police that vened by President Dean Poll, Continued on page 4 his battle to the disease, plung - ing his family into mourning. He survived by his brother and law partner, Andrew, and his wife, Stephanie; his parents, Dionys - Popular U- Greek-American LGBTs Inspired by SC Ruling ios and Anastasia; his ex-wife, Julie, and their children, Anas - tasia and Zachary; and all the District Spot, NEW YORK – When the United friends and family members States Supreme Court ruled in who loved and admired him. favor of gay marriage in two Andrew told TNH that the Continental, cases on June 26 – albeit by nar - untimely death was the result row 5-4 margins – Greek-Amer - of a medical error because the ican gay men and women hoped diagnosis was made one year af - Will Close that more than the legal land - ter tests indicated a high PSA scape will now change. (Prostate-Specific Antigen). TNH has spoken to a number “The first tests were undertaken By Erik Lacitis of individuals, including clergy, in 2008 but Latos first learned The Seattle Times gay rights advocates, and health about the results on Thanksgiv - professionals about the ruling. ing Day form his cardiologist, It wears on you, the nearly They believe the ruling will in - 40 years running the beloved spire discussion in the Greek- Continued on page 6 Continental Greek Restaurant & American community that will Pastry Shop in the University foster understanding and accep - District. tance. Everything has to end, some - The Greek-Orthodox Arch - time. diocese has not issued a state - Live from For the Continental, it ends ment about the rulings at press Sunday. time, but its views are reflected You really couldn’t call your - in an August 27, 2003 statement Lithi: Burned self a Husky alum if you hadn’t of SCOBA – the Standing Con - stopped by at least once. This is ference of Canonical Orthodox the revered family-run place Bishops in the Americas, which But Beautiful that always welcomed you was chaired by Archbishop warmly. Demetrios of America: At 4549 University Way N.E., “The Orthodox Church can - By Constantinos E. Scaros it was the place where Univer - not and will not bless same-sex sity of Washington students unions. Whereas marriage be - CHIOS, GREECE – Americans went for a souvlaki sandwich, a tween a man and a woman is a of Greek descent and otherwise homemade baklava or a break - George Plagianos and Nicholas Zymaris bear the Axios banner at the 2013 Gay Pride March in that have visited the Greek is - fast omelet covered with feta. Continued on page 7 New York, which turned out to be a celebration of landmark Supreme Court rulings. lands know that with rare ex - And then kept coming back as ception, lush green countryside they married and brought in is nowhere to be found. The their kids. “prasinada” native Greeks often It was the place where acad - speak about looks more like emic types and new arrivals Fundraiser Soros Speaks at Niarchos Conference stone-washed denim green scat - from everywhere from the Mid - tered among rocks and hay to dle East to Africa to Europe most of us that are used to “real” found a home. For Prentzas TNH Writer which it denies – and an anti- prasinades. At that table right by the pas - racism bill has been stalled in The Northern Aegean island try counter, where older men ATHENS - Austerity measures Parliament after Prime Minister of Chios, however, though not gathered to play backgammon Campaign in place in Greece for more than Antonis Samaras withdrew his quite as green as Skiathos, Thas - and talk about this and that, it three years are largely the result support for it.